Objectives

The Diploma aim to teach and assess the knowledge and skills that a surgeon requires to effectively and safely perform minimally invasive surgery.

Target Audience

All who meet the eligibility requirements can enroll for the diploma. This provides surgeons who have completed their basic training to have the accreditation required to practice of minimally invasive surgery.

In these course the participant would gain exposure and obtain insight into the entire spectrum of Minimal Access Surgery (laparoscopy) as it exists today. Participants for the Diploma Course shall complete 3 out of the 6 offered courses and should be involved in more than 5-8 live surgical procedures from 4 operating theatres during their training.

All laparoscopic procedures would be demonstrated and discussed in didactic lectures. These lectures include operating room layout, port placements, operative approach and retraction, surgical steps, complications and follow up.

Simulated endotraining consists of varied monoeuvres and exercises to develop and improve hand eye coordination and to develop skills in laparoscopic suturing and knotting. Instructional videos are provided to establish and reinforce concepts gained from live operative demonstrations and didactic lectures.

At the end of the Diploma Course, participants would have gained exposure and obtained a close insight into state of the art minimal access surgical techniques across a very wide range of surgical procedures both basic and advanced.